[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Various improvement in TOOLS/cpuinfo.c

Zuxy Meng zuxy.meng at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 04:49:01 CEST 2006


2006/4/26, Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml at fatooh.org>:
> Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > -      { 28, "htt",   "Multi-threading" },
> > +      { 28, "ht",    "Multi-threading" },
>
> Isn't this "Hyper-threading"? ...or is that just a marketing name?
>

Yes it's the original hyper-threading bit, but dual core cpu sets it,
too, so Intel has renamed it "multi-threading". However, for
historical reasons the flag remains "ht".
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